The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-08-05
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS. |
Wm. Keller, wholesale liquor deal.
er OF Canton, was arrested for selling
liquor without d license.
Citizens OF Woonsocket have
been formally notified by the officials
of the Duluth, Watertown and Pacific
that Woonsocket's bid for the new
limo has been accepted.
The discovery has just been made
OF extensive peat beds on the farm of
John l.. Marso, in Lake township,
Sully county, ten miles northeast OF
Blunt, in the Medicine valley.
Cass county's valuation by the as
sessment this year is SIP, ,174, ,o6O, an
increase OF 100000 over last year
There are 13l, ,6O5 acres assessed for
n total OF So, l40,s92, an increase OF
S60O.0OO.
While James McGill employed as Il
wiper in the Manitoba shops at Minot,
was in bathing he got beyond his
depth and was drowned i'll the Mouse
river.
During terrific thunder and rnm
storm Charles Herst OF Fort Pierre
took his family into u cyclone cellar
and went out to take last look at
the storm. While at the window he
was struck by lightning and killed. A
hole Us large as " pea was found inhis
head, and all his bones were melted
and his body had turned perfectly
black.
The Northwestern Dental associa-
tion met at Fargo with attendance
from North Dakota, Northern Mime.
sofa, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Des
NIoines and Milwaukee.
Judge Spencer has dissolved the in
junction which he issued temporarily
restraining the removal OF the county
records of Brown county from Colum-
bin to Aberdeen. A number of men
and teams left Aberdeen for Columbia
to remove the county records to
Aberdeen. They were obtained with
| out resistance.
A Leonard dispatch says that q
hail storm visited that vicinity doing
considerable damage to crops. The
wife of Eckelson Thompson was
struck by lightning and killed.
AT Fargo, in addition to the total
destruction of the foundry by the
storm the Milwaukee freight depot,
built of brick, with slate roof, was de-
molished. The goods are being cared
| for i'll freight cars. There were many
minor damages to property.
A terrific hailstorm swept over Rap
id City, covering the ground to the
depth OF four inches, breaking window
| lights on the west and north sides oi
every house in tho city. The damage
is estimated at $4,000. A number
OF persons were injured, but none fa.
| tally SO far as heard from. Where
grain was touched it was totally de-
stroyed.
Tho territory has commenced its
series OF liquor prosecutions in Lin
colnecounty under the local option
law, which prohibits wholesalcina
where the county commissioners have
| refused to grant license. William
| Roller, wholesale liquor dealer, was
arrested and waived examination to
await the action OF the grand jury.
Judge Barnes, now ofDelavan, Wis,
but district Judge OF North Dakota ur
to 1883, has been spending afew weeks
in Fargo. He tells some interesting
anecdotes OF early days on the bench
Several years ago E. II. BLY,, proprie
tor OF the Sherman house at Bismarck
was foreman OF the grand jury for The
Burleigh county term of the district
court, and among the indictments hi
returned were three against himself
two being for selling liquor on Sunday
and the other for allowing gambling
in his house. Hepleaded guilty to all
and paid his fine. The Judge says
that at another time j. b. Chaplin O
Fargo was q member of the grand jur;
| that indicted himself (Chapin) fol
Sunday liquor selling, and after thu
jury had made its report he stepped
out of the Jury box and said: :"
plead guilty to thatcharge, and vot
ed in favor OF the Indictment Th,
| Judge fined him $50, and he stepped
up to the clerk and pulled out th
money. AS he paid it, he remarked
to the Judge, 1--WE sold liquor Tor sev
en- years-on Sunday as well as tn
rest OF the week-and ! can max
enough in q day 10 pay this fine.
believe, though, in upholding the maj
ssty OF the law"
The college committee OF the Congre
gational church met at Fargo. an,
accepted the proposition made by
citizens committee in rega,d to tn
bonus to be given for a location OF tn
Congregational college in Fargo. /
WAS decided to accept the fair ground
site when the tito was cleared. Thes
selected the following directors 10
The first year: Reverends II. G. Sim
mons, II. A. Beard, &. b. Barnes,
l.. Gillette, A. j. Pike, William Ewin.
and Messrs. A. A. Miller, j. II. O'Dee
aard, ]. C. Giddings, L. w. Chaffe
and G. S. Barnes. Eev. Mr.. Simmon
was made chairman and Rev. MI
Beard secretary. The board was al
thorized to go a head at once, secur
teachers, temporary rooms, and ac
vertise the opening of the preparator
school in the fall.
At McCanna, the Minneapolis
Northern elevator was burned. It
q total loss, with 1000 to 1000
bushels ofwheat.
, Prof. Reno OF New York has Jus
been added to the faculty OF the Metl
odist university at Mitchell.
Lightning did great damage abor
Abercrapbia by striking hay stacl
and horses. At Mansion Prairie, fl,
miles east, FIVE horses belonging to p
ter Goodhue were killed by one strok
two frame houses were unroofed an
Charles Miller lost loo tons OF hay.
|, A wind and hail storm blew owe
the Catholic church. three dwell;r